It has to be. RMS browses the internet by e-mailing a remote machine that wgets the page and e-mails it back to him, then views it in lynx so that JavaScript doesn't run. There's absolutely no way in Hell he'd be on corporate social media.
What makes you think the fake screenshot is Mastodon? I don't use it so I don't know about fonts and colors and margins matching up, but I'd at least expect there to be an instance name attached to the username.
Also, RMS is certainly not the kind of guy to use social media at all, libre and federated or not.
The page behind your link above actually solves the riddle in question:
I have a Mastodon account, @rms on mastodon.xyz, which mirrors the political notes of stallman.org. The person who set up the mirroring chose that site.
The profile picture and colour scheme fits. I'm guessing just the text is edited.
It's almost exactly like that only if the tin hat guy would turn out to be right every single goddamn time in hindsight. RMS is... a character at best, but he sure has some predictive powers.
Obviously not every single time. If the major players in the Linux ecosystem had adhered to his extremist views, Linux would be in the same spot as GNU Hurd: forgotten, outclassed by less extremist competitors.
I haven't especially heard the Linux or Rust stereotype, but it's fair enough for a funny joke.
Stallman is one of the world's most prolific C developers, so that part of the joke may be just making fun of his (likely) reluctance to adopt Rust, which is often recommended to C programmers.
Personal pet theory that may also play into it: Trans people are also often in information security roles. Potentially, because when you have to hide your real identity, you start to get good at it.
And Rust also has various security benefits, especially when compared to C, but also when compared to garbage-collected languages (race conditions are largely prevented).
also because on the Internet you can just be the opposite gender and not have to correct everyone all the time, or just be anonymous and not have a gender
Also: stallman is a character and has been associated with a pedophelia/ebephilia yikes semi reasonable Epstein takes and a lack of understanding that consenting sex with a minor causes harm.
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S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 92 pts · 1y
Don't worry she knows she should teach you something bottom like .net
surph_ninja@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
She’ll make excuses for python inefficiencies. ‘But it has so many libraries available!’
Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 1y
i feel attacked! i'm neither feline nor trans and still
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 46 pts · 1y
Is this an April Fools joke?
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 133 pts · 1y
Everyone knows that transwomen prefer Rust due to its borrow checker which ensures memory safety without the overhead of garbage collection.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de · 62 pts · 1y
It's just basic biology, how do people not know this?
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 1y
Trans men on the other hand prefer Haskell, top biology professors are dumbfounded!
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
I would have thought transmen would prefer Python.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Yes, and that's why the professors are scratching their heads.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 1y
What does it mean if one likes both?
bishbosh@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Gender fluid
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y
Oh, those biology professors and their pet slimes...
30p87@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Not every trans woman tho
grue@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 1y
It has to be. RMS browses the internet by e-mailing a remote machine that
wgets the page and e-mails it back to him, then views it inlynxso that JavaScript doesn't run. There's absolutely no way in Hell he'd be on corporate social media.(I'm not joking, by the way.)
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Mastodon is corporate social media?
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
What makes you think the fake screenshot is Mastodon? I don't use it so I don't know about fonts and colors and margins matching up, but I'd at least expect there to be an instance name attached to the username.
Also, RMS is certainly not the kind of guy to use social media at all, libre and federated or not.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 1y
The page behind your link above actually solves the riddle in question:
The profile picture and colour scheme fits. I'm guessing just the text is edited.
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Welp, that's embarrassing for me. Good catch!
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
grue@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
He literally invented the concept of Free Software. So yeah, of course he's extreme about it!
unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y
The difference would be that RMS is extremely well-versed in computer technology. He understands the problems with non-free software.
Someone with his knowledge could choose to disregard those issues for convenience, but Stallman is willing to make great sacrifices.
Doxin@pawb.social · 4 pts · 1y
It's almost exactly like that only if the tin hat guy would turn out to be right every single goddamn time in hindsight. RMS is... a character at best, but he sure has some predictive powers.
rtxn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Obviously not every single time. If the major players in the Linux ecosystem had adhered to his extremist views, Linux would be in the same spot as GNU Hurd: forgotten, outclassed by less extremist competitors.
django@discuss.tchncs.de · 43 pts · 1y
Look at those numbers to get your answer.
mogoh@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y
Yeah, but it's true. What if?
genevieve@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 39 pts · 1y
Don’t worry.
No catgirl’s gonna get anywhere near the fetid odour of RMS.
Don’t ask me why I know it.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y
Newsflash: felines stink, the bigger they are the more they do. A big furry wouldn’t have a problem with body odor even in the scale of RMS’s.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 1y
S***, I've been meaning to learn Rust but didn't know where to start, thanks
Genius@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
cocomutative_diagram@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 1y
No, trans girl does it better :)
rumba@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
I keed I keed
Ideonek@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Hahahahahaha
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 1y
had me in the first half of the first half
TGhost@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Wut ? 🤔 Eli5 pls ?
Siethron@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Rust is a programming language
TGhost@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
Hm OK. That I know..
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y
The joke is that trans people in the tech community are typically developers+Linux users with a propensity to prefer Rust for a programming language.
A lot of people have been pushing for Rust to be incorporated into the Linux kernel more, rather than being mostly C.
It's a joke based on a stereotype.
ryukendo@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 1y
Is that real rms post?
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
No...
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
look at the interactions lol
parrhesia@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Wait how did that happen?
Dragonstaff@leminal.space · 11 pts · 1y
Transness and Software development are both correlated to neurodiversity. (I am a neurodivergent trans developer, ftr)
I haven't especially heard the Linux or Rust stereotype, but it's fair enough for a funny joke.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y
Stallman is one of the world's most prolific C developers, so that part of the joke may be just making fun of his (likely) reluctance to adopt Rust, which is often recommended to C programmers.
parrhesia@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Oh I just meant with rust lol, but that does give me a little insight, thanks!
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 1y
Alternative lifestyle people are visionaries
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Personal pet theory that may also play into it: Trans people are also often in information security roles. Potentially, because when you have to hide your real identity, you start to get good at it.
And Rust also has various security benefits, especially when compared to C, but also when compared to garbage-collected languages (race conditions are largely prevented).
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
also because on the Internet you can just be the opposite gender and not have to correct everyone all the time, or just be anonymous and not have a gender
Muaddib@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Also Stallman is against using Rust in the Kernel
klu9@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Hurd?
frezik@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
Glad we ask his opinion first.
Does RMS even have any code in the Linux kernel?
Gladaed@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
Also: stallman is a character and has been associated with a
pedophelia/ebephilia yikessemi reasonable Epstein takes and a lack of understanding that consenting sex with a minor causes harm.